January 17, 2018
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Written and directed by Georgina Escobar, “Bi-” casts a lens on where we come from and who are we becoming, raising the question, ‘What is your bi-denity.’ The play is
presented by Teatro Milagro for Portland’s Fertile Ground, a city wide festival of new works at performance venues across the city through Jan.28.
Fertile Ground for New Works
A city wide
festival for
artistic creators
Now in its ninth year, the Port-
land-grown Fertile Ground City-
wide Festival of New Works
flourishes in a town of prolific
playwrights, abundant actors, in-
novative dancers, talented design-
ers and adventuresome producers.
For the next 11 days, and at all
times of the day and night, new
“acts of creation” from Portland’s
artistic community will thrive on
stages, nooks and crannies all over
the city, beginning Thursday, Jan.
18 to Sunday, Jan. 28.
Fertile Ground is an incuba-
tor for new work in all forms and
stages of creation offering the-
atre and dance, workshops, staged
readings, readings and multidisci-
plinary events.
The breadth of creative work
comes from seasoned theatre
and dance companies alongside
spunky, young art-creators of ev-
ery ilk.
Key producers for the 2018 fes-
tival include Artists Repertory
Theatre with the world premiere
of “Magellanica,” Milagro with
the world premiere of “Bi-,” along
with works from regularly produc-
ing companies like Echo Theatre
Company, Lakewood Theatre and
Theatre Vertigo.
“Fertile Ground offers a place
where everything that can be creat-
ed by Portland artists is welcome,”
said Nicole Lane, festival director.
“It is also a chance to inform au-
diences about the creation process,
and to introduce Festival support-
ers to new artists, companies and a
variety of art forms.”
A full list of Fertile Ground
events is available by visiting on-
line at fertilegroundpdx.org.